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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Human trafficking"”.
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Human Trafficking in Poland: Further Victimization of Female Victims of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
… a source, destination, and transit country for human trafficking. The country is taking steps to address this crime, but it offers very little benefits to the victims. Currently, the victims are only allowed to stay temporarily in Poland if they testify against their traffickers. During their …
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Human trafficking : women's stories of agency
… thesis is about women’s stories of agency in a trafficking experience. The idea of agency is a difficult concept to fathom, given the unscrupulous acts and exploitative practices which demarcate and define trafficking. In response to the three Ps of trafficking policy (prevention and protection …
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First Response: Centering Victim Care in Human Trafficking
This research study focuses on human trafficking for sexual exploitation, one of many forms of gender-based violence. Victims are often recruited and groomed at an early age, experience manipulation, and complex forms of coercion and control. There are few studies that examine the types of support …
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Examining Factors that Influence Reactions to Human Trafficking
<p>Human trafficking involves the transportation or harboring of individuals under conditions of force or coercion for the purpose of exploitation. Trafficking is a worldwide issue, and involves millions of individuals who cross all gender, racial, and ethnic lines. Previous research has shown that …
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Human Trafficking and Health Care Professionals: Assessment of Medical and Nursing Education Programs' Curricula on Recognizing and Helping Victims of Human Trafficking
… for their students on dealing with victims of human trafficking. In order to address this goal, the survey among professors and instructors of 650 randomly selected medical and nursing education programs was conducted, where they were asked if their programs' curricula include training on …
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The Dominant Human Trafficking Paradigm and Economic Elite Interests
Human trafficking has become a highly politicized and popular social issue in recent decades within the United States. However, the dominant discourse surrounding the issue has been become a hyperbolic and sensationalized account of the issue, in which important dimensions are omitted, complicated, …
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The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
<p>Human trafficking intervention courts (HTICs), specialty courts in the US designed to connect trafficking victims to services when they are arrested, require defendants to identify as victims of human trafficking in order to qualify for HTICs' services and other social supports. However, some …
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Inequality and International Human Trafficking Flows: A Network Analysis
Trafficking in persons, or human trafficking, is an international phenomenon that has received increasing attention from scholars. This study uses bilateral human trafficking data to test whether or not relative deprivation is a better explanatory factor of the likelihood of country-to-country …
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Towards an evidence-based investigation framework for human trafficking crimes
Human Trafficking (HT) is one of the most complex crimes to detect and investigate. Yet, the empirical understanding that exists on HT investigations is minimal. While the research conducted so far has mainly focussed on examining the challenges law enforcement agencies face when detecting and …
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Human trafficking in Ireland – reconstituting the rights identity of trafficked persons
… thesis critically analyses state responses to human trafficking in Ireland and is positioned conceptually and theoretically within the branch of critical antitrafficking studies (Lindquist, 2013: 322). This approach asserts that, not only is anti-trafficking a field of inquiry, it is also a …
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Assumptions and Reality: The securitisation of human trafficking in Southern Africa
… war on terrorism' are the most obvious examples. Trafficking in persons has also been elevated to a security issue. The trend of 'securitising' non-traditional security threats has not stirred much controversy as yet. This dissertation will question why and how the issue of human trafficking has …
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Human-trafficking for sexual exploitation in Australia : the deafening silence on demand
… resources have been directed at stemming sex-trafficking. Despite this, it continues to flourish. The harm that results from an illicit global industry that nourishes crime, corrupt officials, and opportunistic consumers, is immense. This thesis presents a conceptual framework to consider the …
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Human trafficking and the media: Comparing newspapers' portrayal of victims and offenders
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Catholic Sisters: Leaders in the Fight Against Human Trafficking. A Phenomenological Study
Human trafficking, despite being illegal in every country, remains a global problem. Even in the face of a global pandemic, human trafficking continues to be a dynamic, complex issue. Leaders in the fight against trafficking are faced with a multilayered issue that thrives in a complex environment. …
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